Director of the Department of Transport and Logistics Engineering of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
He is an industrial civil engineer with a diploma in Transport Engineering and hold a master’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his PhD in Engineering Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
RESEARCH AREAS
His research topics are related to traffic theory, control and simulation, the use of traffic sensors, traffic state estimation and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
LATEST 10 PUBLICATIONS
Garrido-Valenzuela, F., Raveau, S., & Herrera, J. C. (2022). Bayesian Route Choice Inference to Address Missed Bluetooth Detections. IEEE Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(3), 1865-1874. https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2020.3028804
Steiniger, S., Wagemann, E., De la Barrera, F., Molinos‐Senante, M., Villegas, R., De la Fuente, H., Vives, A., Arce, G., Herrera, J. C., Carrasco, J. A., Pastén, P., Muñoz, J., & Barton, J. R. (2020). Localising urban sustainability indicators: The CEDEUS indicator set, and lessons from an expert-driven process. Cities, 101, 102683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102683
Delpiano, R., Herrera, J. C., Laval, J., & Coeymans, J. E. (2020). A two-dimensional car-following model for two-dimensional traffic flow problems. Transportation Research. Part C, Emerging Technologies, 114, 504-516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.02.025
Mendez, J. T., Löbel, H., Parra, D., & Herrera, J. C. (2019). Using Twitter to Infer User Satisfaction With Public Transport: The Case of Santiago, Chile. IEEE Access, 7, 60255-60263.https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2915107
Castro, S., Poulos, A., Herrera, J. C., & De la Llera, J. C. (2019). Modeling the Impact of Earthquake-Induced Debris on Tsunami Evacuation Times of Coastal Cities. Earthquake Spectra, 35(1), 137-158.https://doi.org/10.1193/101917eqs218m
Spiliopoulou, A., Papageorgiou, M., Herrera, J. C., & Muñoz, J. C. (2016). Real-Time Merging Traffic Control at Congested Freeway Off-Ramp Areas. Transportation Research Record, 2554(1), 101-110. https://doi.org/10.3141/2554-11
Delpiano R, Herrera J.C & Coeymans J.E. (2015). Characteristics of lateral vehicle interaction. Transportmetrica. A, Transport Science, 11(7), 636-647. https://doi.org/10.1080/23249935.2015.1059377
Delpiano, R., Laval, J., Coeymans, J. E., & Herrera, J. C. (2015). The kinematic wave model with finite decelerations: A social force car-following model approximation. Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological/Transportation Research. Part B, Methodological, 71, 182-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2014.10.005
Hiribarren, G., & Herrera, J. C. (2014). Real time traffic states estimation on arterials based on trajectory data. Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological/Transportation Research. Part B, Methodological, 69, 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2014.07.003
Bucknell, C., & Herrera, J. C. (2014). A trade-off analysis between penetration rate and sampling frequency of mobile sensors in traffic state estimation. Transportation Research. Part C, Emerging Technologies, 46, 132-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2014.05.007
